In a former article we started to argue that publication and citation rankings of individual scholars do not … randomly correlated with citation and publication rankings of these scholars. In this article we go a step further by … hypothesizing a systematic, inverted U-shaped relationship between quantitative and qualitative rankings. By relying on a …

Research rankings based on publications and citations today dominate governance of academia. Yet they have unintended … scholars, supplemented by periodic self-evaluations and awards. Neither should rankings be a basis for the distributions of …

Strong forces lead to a withering of academia as it exists today. The major causal forces are the rankings mania …

Strong forces lead to a withering of academia as it exists today. The major causal forces are the rankings mania …

Strong forces lead to a withering of academia as it exists today. The major causal forces are the rankings mania …

Research rankings based on publications and citations today dominate governance of academia. Yet they have unintended … scholars, supplemented by periodic self-evaluations and awards. Neither should rankings be a basis for the distributions of …

Publication and citation rankings have become major indicators of the scientific worth of universities and countries …, and determine to a large extent the career of individual scholars. We argue that such rankings do not effectively measure … research quality is considered. Even quantity rankings are not objective; two citation rankings, based on different samples …

Peer reviews and rankings today are the backbone of research governance, but recently came under scrutiny. They take … offers an alternative to the present regime of academic rankings. …

Strong forces lead to a withering of academia as it exists today. The major causal forces are the rankings mania …

Research rankings based on publications and citations today dominate governance of academia. Yet they have unintended … scholars, supplemented by periodic self-evaluations and awards. Neither should rankings be a basis for the distributions of …